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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Moving
Others
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Essentially
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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Connecticut is in my blood.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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